Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2017

One of the most common complaints I hear from new business owners and startups is about the pain and difficulty raising capital. The “venture capital” model is the only option they know, where they feel they get no mercy, giving up equity and control. Block out sufficient time on your calendar for raising capital.

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socalTECH

JUNE 8, 2020

in a funding round led by Octopus Ventures, and also which also included Experian Ventures, Cherry Tree Investments, Dig Ventures, Mucker Capital, Unlock Venture Partners, TechStars and Wavemaker Partners. We curate the best products within each category of finance. Stackin recentlyraised $12.6M What is Stackin'?

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socalTECH

JANUARY 29, 2020

As I started doing a lot of the work to address that, and saw the benefit of that work, I started to bring in that coaching framework and therapy into the partnership at Crosscut, as a team, and in how we communicate. We often hear that people think there's still not enough capital in LA, what are your thoughts on that? READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2018

Pursue strategic alliances and partnerships. Partnerships work to accelerate growth when the sum of the whole is greater than independent efforts. This approach to growth, usually called “coopetition,” capitalizes on the unique strengths of close competitors for a win-win situation for both.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 25, 2015

With the background of our ownership group, and their interest in putting capital to use and our resources to work, we saw the opportunity to create strategic partnerships. That not included the relationships and network that our owners bring to bear, but also capital. We want to life all boats, and grow the space.

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Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Hagger is hoping people will be able to relate to each other around different categories and build friendships. The company announced they have secured an exciting national partnership with Amazon to drive sales and disrupt their digital gifting experience. Doppels means ‘same’ in German. Express Yourself.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 30, 2011

They told me they didn' t have the upfront capital, technical expertise, nor did they have the staff to handle that kind of service for donors. If you think about it, it's a new category of fundraising in the marketplace. Right now, we have a handful of key partnership with some of the software vendors in the space.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

We break it down by a number of vertical categories, including Indulgent--all about food, wine, and alcohol; Active--outdoor athletic endeavors; and Creative, which is arts and crafts. Finally, we have an Eclectic category, which are interesting activities which don't fit into any of those other buckets.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 16, 2013

The firm also reports that partnerships span 25 categories with more than 600 leading brands including Neiman Marcus, Bloomingdales, Sephora, Nordstrom, Pier 1 Imports, Red Envelope, Harry and David, Wayfair and the GAP and its user base has doubled every 2 months since launch. Doubling user base & top-tier clients.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 7, 2016

The idea is to have a partnership between Cedars-Sinai and Techstars, where we select ten healthcare startup companies focused on innovative technology and care delivery in healthcare. Those might be in categories that may not exist today. Omkar Kulkarni: We're deliberately casting a wide net.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 7, 2016

The idea is to have a partnership between Cedars Sinai and Techstars, where we select ten healthcare startup companies focused on innovative technology and care delivery in healthcare. Those might be in categories that may not exist today. Omkar Kulkarni: We're deliberately casting a wide net.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2015

Have a shorter to-do list with more things that are in the “done” category. If by overnight you mean 2-3 years of people second-guessing the category followed by 2-3 years of steady growth, followed by large numbers categorized as overnight success and 9-10 years later a chance at an IPO. Easier said than done.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 26, 2010

At Computer Motion, we created two alliances, comprised of a dozen companies with an aggregate market capitalization in excess of $28B. This last category proved to be especially lucrative. Sexy enough to garner public relations coverage and breathe new life into otherwise staid product categories. Road Rules.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2022

We believe this consistency in leadership and intuition for where the markets were going in the heady days of 2019–2021 helped us to stay sane in a world that momentarily seemed to have lost its mind and since we have new capital to deploy in the years ahead perhaps I can offer some insights into where we think value will be derived.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2016

You need to nurture non-organic growth partnerships and acquisitions to maximize your valuation. The smart ones in this category know when it’s time to bring in an outside more experienced CEO, or step aside voluntarily when investors start demanding new management disciplines and metrics.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

million dollars from some of the biggest funds (First Round Capital, NEA and GRP), is precisely because they solved such a huge problem. They have 15 channels of categories with publishers like Alloy Digital, U.S. Buys can happen on a keyword level or a channel category. Tanz believes that the reason they have raised $10.8

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 4, 2014

As one of our most fully stacked events to date, we thought it wouldn’t quite each of our five categories justice by recapping the entire event and skimming only for highlights. Mike Swords – Executive Director of Strategic Research Initiatives and Global Partnerships, UCLA.

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socalTECH

JUNE 1, 2009

Really soon you'll see we'll be editorializing products and helping people to choose gifts in a category an dhow to pick the right gifts. Eden Jarrin: We're privately funded, at this time not by venture capital. Eden Jarrin: Right now we're building the brand, getting together partnerships. How is this company backed?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 15, 2010

Pretty much anything that goes into a business plan falls into one of these four categories: Opportunity : Every successful business exploits an opportunity. What types of business partnerships will you need to forge? How much investment capital will you need to pull this off? How will you overcome the regulatory hurdles?

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

As a startup in this phase you often raise capital, get press, hire staff and everything feels possible. Richard was CMO for PAX labs a market leader in the e-cigarette category and he ran marketing for Bonobos, an innovative apparel company bought by Walmart for more than $300 million. As an early-stage VC I love this phase.

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Last summer, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss—twins best known for suing Mark Zuckerberg over the origins of Facebook, and who recently formed a venture-capital firm—bought an 8,000-square-foot bachelor pad in the Hollywood Hills for $18 million. raise capital and move up north as soon as they got successful. Advertise Locally.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

I recently read a blog post by Beezer Clarkson, Managing Director of Sapphire Ventures about why entrepreneurs should care about from whom their VC funds raise their capital. Stable Capital Amongst the hardest things to find when one raises a new fund is ability to have stable capital. Beezer did. We lived that first hand.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

Who’s going to help you with improving your marketing / positioning to become a clear platform category leader like Twilio? When you think about the success that is Silicon Valley, the unfair advantage is not just the huge amounts of available venture capital. Who can get help get access to their capital?

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SoCal Delicious

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Home About Press IA Capital Partners Archives After 17 years in M&A, Derivatives and Trading, Im spending my time with young entrepreneurs in and around financial technology and digital media. And if this business partnership doesn't work out, the CTO / Founder, the engine of value for the company, is stuck in a bad, bad place.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Shivani Siroya is the CEO and Founder of InVenture , which helps to expand small businesses around the world by providing access to growth capital and business tracking tools via the Internet and mobile technology. By Category Marketing. View all categories. Shivani Siroya – CEO and Founder of InVenture. Technology.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2018

Know the firm but also know the partnership So by now you have 50 names on a spreadsheet with 8–10 A’s, 8–10 B’s, 10–20 C’s and 10 D’s. Investment professionals tend to fall into the following categories: Not an investment partner. That is the firm qualification. People make this mistake all the time. So you are meeting a gate keeper.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2011

He isn’t setting out to do it over night but with the ambition to make a difference in the world Ryan falls into the rare category of entrepreneur looking to tackle something truly monumental. But Ryan’s vision is much broader, which is what perked up my ears. Ryan wants to reinvent education. I plan to use Treehouse myself.

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